MAN CITY IN 6 GAMES FROM WORLD RECORD
Picture : Manchester City 2021 - what a serie !
MANCHESTER CITY - 6 GAMES TO THE WORLD RECORD
Manchester City are going on winning every game in all competitions. Their victorious series started on 19 December 2020 and is extended to 21 games at the moment: 15 in Premier League, 3 in FA Cup, 2 in League Cup and 1 in Champions’ League.
This is 6th in the top-level football history but the World record is actually not very far from “Citizens”. For reaching it, they have to win next 6 games. However, already nearest of them, the Mancunian derby on 7 March, will be a hard challenge for Pep Guardiola guys.
The World record belongs to the currently best Welsh side The New Saints; it was established in 2016-17 and consists of 27 consecutive games: 21 in Welsh league, 1 in Welsh Cup, 3 in Welsh League Cup and 2 in Scottish Challenge Cup, in which the team were invited to take part.
Picture : Ajax 1971 and 1995, Bayern 2020, Real 2014 and The Saints FC 2016 (in the middle)
In the table, the best winning streaks for clubs in the football history, taking in account only top-level competitions; in particular, only clubs from top divisions.
We haven’t included some long series achieved in regional leagues like those of Curitiba (24 games in 2011; 17 in Campeonato Paranaense and 7 in Copa do Brasil) or Dresden (26 games in 1942-43; 18 in Gauliga Sachsen, 5 in German Championship, 3 in Tschammer-Pokal).
| WORLD's ALL-TIME LONGEST CLUB WINNING RUNS (in all competitions) | ||||||||||||||||
| Club | Country | NL | NC | LC | OC | CL | USC | CWC | Total | Start of run | Game | End of run | Game | |||
| 1 | The New Saints | Wales | 21 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 27 | 14/08/2016 | Aberystwyth (2:1) | NL | 30/12/2016 | Cefn Druids (2:0) | NL | |||
| 2 | Ajax | Netherlands | 19 | 3 | 4 | 26 | 03/10/1971 | Nijmegen (1:0) | NL | 29/03/1972 | Nijmegen (1:0) | NC | ||||
| 3 | Ajax | Netherlands | 19 | 1 | 5 | 25 | 08/04/1995 | Willem II (7:0) | NL | 28/10/1995 | Roda (6:1) | NL | ||||
| 4 | Bayern | Germany | 14 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 23 | 16/02/2020 | Koeln (4:1) | NL | 24/09/2020 | Sevilla (2:1) | USC | |||
| 5 | Real Madrid | Spain | 12 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 22 | 16/09/2014 | Basel (5:1) | CL | 20/12/2014 | San Lorenzo (2:0) | CWC | |||
| 6 | Manchester City | England | 15 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 19/12/2020 | Southampton (1:0) | NL | ||||||
Abbreviatures:
NL = National League (top divisions)
NC = (main) National Cup
LC = League Cup
OC = other (relevant) national Cups (Scottish Challenge Cup for The New Saints, National SuperCup for Ajax)
CL = Champions’ League (or Champions’s Cup)
USC = UEFA SuperCup
CWC = Club World Cup